dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
his discography been back on spotify for nearly 3 years...i'll assume it was also added to apple and the paid YT music around then also
Drake the top streaming artist for the year, 2pac number 65.
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dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
yall gonna keep this going, but summer is sitting where someone like ashanti was sitting in r&b in 01-05 or keyshia cole in 05-08. she's at the top of the r&b game. amerie has a classic, yet not super commercially successful debut, and another classic single from her sophomore album and maybe one classic feature with LL, but as far as popularity, she was always b-list. summer is capturing that young relationship pain and urban mindset that ashanti and keyshia did. she's undeniably the top 2 hottest current r&b chicks, amerie was never top 2-3, she was beloved, but never quite as impactful or successful despite no one ever being able to say a bad thing about her.
I agree on Keyshia Cole, but not Ashanti. Ashanti was like the top R&B chick outside of Alicia and Beyonce. She had multiple hits solo and at the height of her career had a triple platinum album. She had a #1 single on her debut. Clearly, Ashanti was crossover as she was at nominated, winning, and performing at every major awards show. That ain't Summer.
The reason I compared her to Amerie is because Amerie was never #1 either because she was behind the Ashanti's and Alicia's.
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Eastside Get The Money
Veteran
Most of that list is rap 
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
alicia and beyonce were full on cross over/top 40 status + got burn on adult contemporary/old school soul stations. ashanti sat at the top of contemporary r&b/urban. summer is at the top of urban/r&b, only chick doing more numbers than her from her peer group is SZA and SZA has crossed over with that trolls song, all the stars, and TDE's avant garde reach/brand...
just on spotify
SZA - 29M listeners
Summer - 16M
Kehlani - 14M (she came up a lot since the last time i looked at her numbers
) edit: forgot she's on tourHER - 11.1
Jhene - 10M
Ella Mai - 6.6
Ari - 4.2
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alicia and beyonce were full on cross over/top 40 status + got burn on adult contemporary/old school soul stations. ashanti sat at the top of contemporary r&b/urban. summer is at the top of urban/r&b, only chick doing more numbers than her from her peer group is SZA...
just on spotify
SZA - 29M listeners
Summer - 16M
Kehlani - 14M (she came up a lot since the last time i looked at her numbers
HER - 11.1
Jhene - 10M
Ella Mai - 6.6
Ari - 4.2
I'd say Ashanti was full on crossover as well. She wasn't getting a #1 without it especially considering she was also getting major burn and looks from MTV and the Grammys. That's not even counting her features on Fat Joe's "Waht's Love" and Ja's "Always On Time". Then there's The Inc's "Down 4 U". It was like all that was heard in 2002 was Ashanti.
zayk35
Superstar
I know I'm old because it's a lot of rappers who I've heard of but never heard an actual song by them. But I do like seeing Pac still pretty high, all things considered.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
ashanti wasn't the same type of cross over as bey and alicia. ashanti's music was urban, and yea, some of that made it to top 40 formats, but bey and alicia were pop stars, the stars of r&b, appealed to older listeners and critical/industry darlings. ashanti was clowned for not being a good singer but loved for her pen game by black female r&b fans. ashanti's bread and butter was the black community. she was the "it" r&b girl for a few years, and Summer has been the "it" girl for the past 4 years. it's wild you keep trying to down level her. her and SZA have chicks 14-30 on lock
and as discussed in the other thread, there just isn't the same landscape for music to crossover. even sza, her songs that made it to the pop charts were attached to soundtracks for huge movies and bigger stars (kendrick and JT). ashanti was during the TLR era where all genres got shine on one format which helped them cross over to top 40 radio, etc
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Dynamite James
The Main attraction
Michael Jackson at 57 impressive 
Jesus H. Christ
I died for your sins
Top five ain't that bad, papi
I look at crossover as crossover. And yeah, The Black community was the bread and butter was the Black community more so than Ashanti. I don't even see how that's even an argument. Ashanti, Alicia, and Beyonce are all R&B acts that crossed over and went Pop while still maintaining a largely Black audience.
I'm not trying to keep Summer down a level. I'm telling you Summer hasn't crossed over the way those three women did. She, as you out it, is pretty much where Keyshia Cole was. I conceded to that. Keyshia was never crossover. She was an R&B artist that was huge in the R&B realm that never really crossed over into the Pop world. That was ALL I was saying with the Amerie comparison. It was taken as a slight because ya'll see Summer as something bigger. She's not Ashanti or Alicia status and there is nothing at all wrong with that.
West Coast Avenger
West Coastin & Smokin
Bruh...Michael Jackson is on here...Coldplay.... ....Usher......Beyonce.....all of their music has great replay value.....and that's why it's heavily streamed....the only thing you said about Jay Z is that he hasn't recently dropped an album but that's juelzing......Pac been dead since my senior year of high school and he is on this list....you would think that supposed King of NY would be on here but for some reason he isn't....then you brought streaming platforms....Jay Z has albums on Spotify and Apple......what other excuses are you going to use??....